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| Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1867 - 468 pages
...bank is. But with respect to the question, whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| William Williamson Kerr - 1868 - 498 pages
...v. Kuight Bruce, LJ, commentof the liability of a principal for the acts of his agent, Cbap. I. done in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong (f). A man cannot... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1870 - 582 pages
...liability of a corporation for fraud, Chapter XXVIII. PRINCIPAL answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business and for his master's benefit, no sensible distiuctlon can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| India - 1878 - 710 pages
...question," said the Court of Exchequer Chamber, " whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| Thomas William Saunders - 1874 - 238 pages
...says : "But with respect to the question whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no serviceable distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong.... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 pages
...principal."4 And "with respect to the question whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction," it has been observed,5 " can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case... | |
| Melville Madison Bigelow - 1875 - 830 pages
...to say : " With respect to the question whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and any other wrong. The general rule... | |
| William Macpherson, Herbert Cowell, Arthur Maynard Talbot - 1878 - 268 pages
...follows : — " With respect to the question, whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
| William Evans - 1879 - 802 pages
...who delivered the judgment of the court, " whether a principal is answerable for the act of his agent in the course of his master's business, and for his master's benefit, no sensible distinction can be drawn between the case of fraud and the case of any other wrong. The... | |
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